“75% of university students voted for Obama as well and even higher if they went to an Ivy League school. Should they as well go through a literacy test? This is a young woman immersed in a ghetto culture. She is the real deal. If anything she was sincere. Whether she lied and fabricated testimony is another issue. Her lack of sophistication makes her a credible witness because her description of events have always been consistent.”

Someone who cannot read probably cannot form intelligent ideas about the issues. The exceptions to that rule are so rare as to be statistically meaningless.

She was not the real deal. She admitted to repeatedly lying under oath. How credible is testimony given under oath by someone who admits it does not bother her to lie under oath?

My guess is that she told St Martin to go back and teach that cracka a lesson. I do NOT believe “cracker” is a term of endearment by blacks towards whites. I do not think Miss Ebonics believes cracker is a neutral term. I think the ‘don’t you diss me’ attitude she displayed on the stand was shared by St Martin, and that night it killed him.

What happens during the lawyers’ summation speeches? Can the defense bring up the evidence that the judge ruled as inadmissible, i.e. the toxicology test showing Martin had marijuana in his system, his past history of fighting and suspension from school, and his mother having kicked him out of her house because of bad behavior, etc.

Also, Zimmerman told the police that Martin had been wandering about the neighborhood looking over the houses. In the rain. THAT is why Zimmerman was suspicious of him.

I tend to agree with your premise. She may have perjured herself on the stand but the overriding element is that as a culture, blacks are not held to the same standard as whitey thus Rachel will get a pass whereas a white trash talking hick would be vilified for expressing the same attitude as she did on the stand. We are witnessing to some degree the contempt and racial bias against whitey that permeates the black culture, aided and abetted by the race baiters in the media. I do not think she manufactured her story but she may have been coached and prepped since the prosecution knew that she would be perceived an unsophisticated young black woman right out of ghetto casting. It apprears that it did not work. She was simply caught in one lie too many that her credibility is in doubt. what the prosecution is hoping is that whitey's prejudices will come out and makes her THE FOCUS and not her conflicting testimony. Remember the litmus test for blacks is much much lower than it is for whites thus making HER the object of the debate and not her testimony so the conversation changes to black riots, violence, cries of racism, will make the jury think twice of aquitting Zimmerman.